Meat or vegetable cutter.



No. 677,337. Patented July 2, mm.

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MEAT 0B VEGETABLE CUTTER.

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No. 677,337. Patented July 2, I90l. M. CAMERON.

MEAT UR VEGETABLE CUTTER. (Applicatiim flled Jan. 25, 1901. (No Model.)2 Sheets.-$he'et 2.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MURDICK CAMERON, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

MEAT OR VEGETABLE CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,337, dated July 2,1901.

Application filed January 25, 1901. Serial No. 44,659. (No model.)

To aZZ whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, MURDIOK CAMERON, a citizen of the United States,residingat Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State ofMinnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meat orVegetable Cuttors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My present invention has for its object to provide an improved meat andvegetable cutter especially adapted for domestic use to take the placeof an ordinary chopping-knife.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices andcombinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in theclaims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing my improved cutter. Fig. 2is a plan view of said cutter. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectiontaken on thelinesc a", of Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 are longitudinalvertical sections taken approximately on the line a x of Fig. 2, theformer showing the parts in operative position and the latter showingthem separated; and Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the axlelatch-bracket removed from working position.

The cutters 1 are in the form of sharpedged disks or wheels, preferablyof tempered steel, secured on an axle 2. The axle 2 fits in open seats3, formed in the sides of a rectangular frame 4. The cutters when placedin working position embrace the sides of the said frame 4-, and the saidframe is provided with outturned guard-flanges 5, which overlie andfollow the upper edges of the cutters and protect the hand therefrom.The handpiece 6 extends above the axle 2 and ataright angle to the axisthereof, and it is secured at its ends to ears 7, formed on the ends ofthe frame 4.

' The so-callec axle-latch is best illustrated in Fig. 6 and, as thereinshown, is afforded by a pair of latch-plates 8, connected bya cross-bar9, and provided with open seats 10. The bar 9 is provided with aninwardlyframe, is a lock-spring 15, which engages the v forward end orbar portion 9 of the axle-latch and serves to hold the same either inits operative position, as shown in Fig. 4, or in its inoperativeposition, as shown in Fig. 5. This spring-latch 1i may, however, beovercome by force applied to the finger-piece 11 or to the thumb-piece12.

The latch-piece above described engages the axle at two dilferent pointsin the vicinity of its disks, and a common movement simultaneously movesboth of the latch-plates 8 thereof either into or out of their operativepositions, according to the direction of movement.

In experiments with these cutters I found it to be essential to the bestresults that the handpiece be extended transversely of the axle and asclose as possible to the axle and at the same time that thecutting-disks be 10- cated as closely together as possible with theother desirable features attained. Hence I have located the handle belowthe tops of the cutting-disks 1 and only so far away from the axle as isnecessary to give clearance for the fingers which grip the handpiece,and have further located the said handpiece closer to one of thecutting-disks than to the other, so as to give room on the one side forthe knuckles and on the other side for the thumb. This latter featurebrings the cutting-disks as closely together as is possible with thehandle located close to the axle.

It will be understood that the device above described is capable ofconsiderable modifi cation within the scope of my invention. It will befurther understood that it is neces-' sary or exceedingly desirable toremove the connected cutters and axle for the purpose of sharpening andcleaning said cutter.

That I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

1. The combination with a frame, having a pair of open seats and ahandpiece, of an axle fitting in said open seats and provided at itsends with cutting-disks, and an axlelatch pivoted 'to said frame, andprovided with a pair of laterally-spaced plates or members having openseats that extend transversely of the open seats of said frame andcooperate therewith to simultaneously connect said axle in workingposition and vice versa, substantially as described.

2. A cutter of the character described, comprising a frame, a pair ofcutting disks, guards on said frame overlying said cutters, and ahandpiece on said frame extending transversely of and above the axis ofsaid cutters, but located below said guards and the upper edges of saidcutters, substantially as described.

3. The combination with the frame 4 having the guards 5, of the pair ofcutting-disks 1 having the axle 2 mounted in said frame and thehandpiece 6 secured to said frame, which handpiece extends transverselyof said axle 2, below said guards 5, and nearer to one of said guardsand cutters than to the others, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MURDICK CAMERON.

Witnesses:

P. GEO. HANSON, W. MARQUARDT.

